Tag Cloud Wisdom
I was playing around with TagCrowd this morning and put in the URL for The Bamboo Project. It was sort of like a fortune cookie or a Magic 8 ball, getting back this message.
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Cool! In a similar vein, I put my annual report in Wordle. Jeff suggested using the result as the cover page!
Posted by: Britt Watwood | June 27, 2008 at 08:43 PM
On another post, Daniel told me that he's been experimenting more with ways to visualize information as a way to make it more easily understood. I'm thinking I may do a post on that because it's potentially one way we can help people make more sense of all of the information that flows across their desks--also a way to see patterns and trends.
Posted by: Michele Martin | June 28, 2008 at 06:07 AM
There's another, similar tool called Wordle that I blogged about recently that produces really beautiful word clouds. Certainly though, TagCrowd is easier to use since you can submit your site rather than having to copy & paste the text from your posts. It's interesting to compare the results of the two...
Posted by: Rob O. | June 28, 2008 at 06:12 AM
Hi Rob--I've used Wordle and you're right, it's very cool and definitely more beautiful. I've been playing around with a few of these recently because I'm thinking that there's value in using them for analyzing trends, etc. and I haven't really explored that idea as much as I should.
Posted by: Michele Martin | June 28, 2008 at 06:29 AM